[SunkenCiv]

Or, they were slaves.

Aerial photo of Tell es-Safi/Gath (Prof. Aren M. Maeir, The Tell es-Safi/Gath Archaeological Project, Bar-Ilan University)

[Tell It Right]

Wasn’t Gath a Phillistine city?

[Covenantor]

One of the hypotheses is that those younger artisans were potters-in-training

No brain strainer that. Keep artistic and tech skills in the family to produce marketable items. Teaching kids to make the more mundane every day items, while the family master artisan produces the decorative high demand high price items. Apprenticeship has ancient roots and high art of the day was much in demand. Same human desires as today...